Frequently Asked Questions

FAQ: Cultural Heritage

What you mean with cultural heritages as sustainable regional development?

What you mean with cultural heritages as sustainable regional development?
To sustain something means fore mostly people can understand the value and support it. From Agenda 21 to the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg 2002 there has been experienced a diminishment of measurable commitment to sustainable development. At local level, two things are prerequisites: citizens’ participation and administrative reform. Hence the criterion of sustainability has to include not only environmental, but equally political, economical, institutional and cultural considerations. If things can be sustained on the basis of memory differentiated into past, present and future, HERMES and Heritage Radio Network want to take values realized in the past into the future. Not everything can be lived, hence it is important to think of development in terms of retaining the potential. Land has value even if not used and nature should retain its independence from man. The same goes for cultures of people like the Indians that were nearly driven to extinction. The European Commission has expressed concern when initiating the Article 10 – ERDF program that over commercialization would destroy cultural identities.

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